Think twice before working here - Video Producer Yoli Employee Review

So much is wrong with this company and I will try to narrow down my points. Not very competitive pay. They don't love giving raises and they don't love negotiating with you when you get hired on. I also found out I was getting paid significantly less than my male counterpart who I was just as skilled as, and when I tried to have a professional conversation about it with one of the higher ups, who told me to come to him if I had any concerns about getting paid my worth, I was extremely belittled. Any point I tried to make was immediately shot down and not listened to. I never was given a raise, despite me having to travel almost triple the amount I had agreed to (and the travel included sharing rooms with other coworkers, so it definitely didn't feel like a vacation either). In addition, our stipends for travel were very low and I always ended up spending my own money on meals. We’d be given $10 for lunch at the airport when we traveled, which never ended up being enough. No communication from the leaders The founders/leaders at the top don't communicate with their employees and they change their minds very often. We would spend many meetings coming up with different names for products, only to be told the next day that the founders didn't like any of our ideas and were doing their own thing. We had about 3 four hour meetings for one product and they ended up using none of our ideas. They started outsourcing content without telling us, and we’d always find out by surprise in a team meeting that there was a new project going on. They would often move forward on something we thought we were involved in without us knowing. The founders are sexist. I worked with the founders on a regular basis so I was able to get to know them a bit and see them behind the scenes of everything. The founders were all male, and when they were told to bring on a female founder for a company with membership of over 80% women, they brought on the CEO’s wife, but wouldn’t give her any responsibilities. They literally wanted to make her title be “the Heart of Yoli,” compared to the other founders who had roles such as President and VP of Marketing. As of now, she still doesn’t have a title other than “Founder” on the website. Even though I had worked with the Chief Marketing Officer on a regular basis and was the senior video person on the team, he did not like to speak to me. In emails, he would completely ignore me and ask what the male videographer was working on. In person, he forgot my name, and when speaking to both video people, he never looked me in the eye and only spoke to the male videographer, even when my male coworker would try and continually bring me into the conversation (he was super cool and respectful). I never complained about this to anyone, but it got so bad that other members of my team also noticed this. They did not like having women in charge, and explicitly told my boss that they would be hiring someone over because she was “too emotional.” (Which, for the record, is completely inaccurate. I traveled with her and worked with her a LOT and would have never said she brought emotions into her work.) They also basically pushed the product specialist out because she was a woman and they wanted a man in the position. They were not at all understanding of her being a mom and sometimes needing to leave or even work from home if her child was sick, and it eventually drove her to quit. No boundaries when it came to spending time with members. Because I traveled a lot and went to almost every event, as well as working on projects about individual people, I had a lot of interaction with Yoli members. The members are nice people and are ultimately just trying to build their business, but they can be intense about Yoli and anyone connected to it. We often had to have meals with them, in which the time or meal pay was not compensated. Yoli members almost always only wanted to talk about Yoli, so it got exhausting spending time with them, but we were never given any breaks. One time I was working on a video project at a member’s house, and one of the women continually sat on my lap, hugged me and wouldn’t let me leave her side. It made me obviously uncomfortable. She also became incredibly upset with me when she found out I hadn’t used the transformation kit and therefore hadn’t been “transformed.” When I told my boss and a higher up about this experience it was completely ignored and laughed at, and I had to work on several other projects with that same member involved. They just always wanted to keep the members happy and therefore did not care about the employees feeling comfortable or not around them. No respect for health or safety during Covid. Yoli handled covid so badly, and has ultimately been the catalyst that is causing a lot of people to quit. In August, they forced everyone to come back to the office full-time and said people could only stay home if they took time off. So even if you had symptoms or had possibly been exposed to covid, you still had to go in if you wanted to get paid. The founders constantly loved to say “Yoli is not a remote company,” even though all of the members work remotely and none of the founders even live in Utah. They have no respect for any of the employees health or well-being, despite supposedly being a health and wellness company. In addition, half the time we didn’t even have soap being restocked in the girls bathroom and would go without it for days at a time. Its an MLM at its core. Despite being told upon being hired that we would not have to sell any of the product, it was still very much pushed on me throughout my entire time at the company. They constantly pushed everyone to use a transformation kit so they could understand what it would feel like to be “transformed.” Some of the drinks have stevia in them, which I am allergic to, but I was made to feel very weird if I didn’t drink Yoli drinks at any event. You are also constantly being reminded that you are part of the Yoli family. Quarterly reviews involved seeing how you were doing in each foundational area of the company and they had a “Family” section, in which it asked if you loved Yoli employees and members like your own family and were treating those people equally. From September 2020 to February 2021, more than half the marketing team has left and only one position has been rehired. Trust me, you do not want to work here. It just keeps going downhill. Ultimately, I REALLY loved my team members, but the leadership is extremely corrupt and toxic. They do not have boundaries or respect for anyone below them.